IE7: No Stop button?!!

J

Jon Davis

What the heck? No stop button in IE7?

I've got Vista Beta 1 installed and I can't find the stop button!

Where's the stop button!?

The Customize toolbar window doesn't even offer the stop button!

I need my stop button!!

.... Yes, I use the Stop button. I use it more than pretty much all other
buttons in IE. What do I use it for? I use it because when I'm opening up a
web browser and I know exactly what URL I want to type in, I don't want to
sit there and wait for the default page to navigate through all the
redirects, finish loading, and then finally highlight an input field
(stealing focus) before I can click back into the Address bar and start
typing the URL I want to navigate to. Internet Explorer has always been so
horribly rude at replacing the Address bar text with the current web page's
URL, completely ignoring the fact that I'm sitting there typing out every
character of the URL I actually want to visit, and wiping it out to show me
a completely useless URL that has nothing to do with what I am trying to do!

Now Microsoft had better change this behavior and respect that the user is
typing in the Address bar, or else return the Stop button. Otherwise it'll
mean war, and Firefox keeps winking at me, in a rather seductive way.
*blink* *blink*

- Jon
 
J

Jon Davis

Looks like Esc is still mapped to View->Stop menu item. That'll do... just a
new habit to learn, probably easier than *click* anyway.

- Jon
 
J

Jon Davis

Aha. Stop is now integrated into the Address bar. The Drop-Down button turns
into a Stop button. Actually I don't like that because it steals away the
drop-down button. Oh well... I have my Stop button now.

Thanks to all of you who replied so fast, that was great... you go, me!

Jon
 
O

Opinicus

Jon Davis said:
Now Microsoft had better change this behavior and respect
that the user is typing in the Address bar, or else return
the Stop button. Otherwise it'll mean war, and Firefox
keeps winking at me, in a rather seductive way. *blink*
*blink*
Click to expand...

I'm sure Microsoft are quaking in their collective boots at
your implied threat and will get on it right away.
 
N

Nocturnal

I find it rather annoying that it disappears. Sometimes I can't click it
fast enough.
 
C

Chris Altmann

It doesn't actually replace the drop down button. It is to the right of the
drop down button. It turns into a refresh button once the page is loaded and
into a go button when you have typed or pasted in an address manually.
 
F

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP

727 said:
Josh Phillips wrote Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:15:54 GMT %n


Well, to stop annoying music from playing once the page has loaded.

An example: http://www.ultimainfo.net/Misc/UDICtionary.htm

Where's the friggin' STOP button when you need it?
Click to expand...

Tools | Internet Options | Advanced
Scroll down to Multimedia.

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J

Jon Davis

Frank Saunders said:
Tools | Internet Options | Advanced
Scroll down to Multimedia.
Click to expand...

Uh, some web pages I like to hear music, others I don't. I'd rather not have
to go and toggle those options every time.

Jon
 

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